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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:17:36PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote:
> Is there a program/utility to install packages from the CD that require 
> multiple dependencies? Like installing Xchat requires GTK, requires 
> Gnome-libs, etc... At times, it makes installing packages rather difficult. 
> Hopefully I'm not the only one that has come across this.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! =)

Recursive pkgmerge will work in 1.0_rc4_pre3.  We have a mostly-working
recursive pkgmerge on the latest CVS version of Portage, but it requires
packages to be organized in category sub-directories (right now, they're in a
single "all" directory).  We will also very likely have a slight
backwards-compatible change to the package format in 1.0_rc4_pre3 to make
recursive pkgmerge workable.

So, we're working on it; please stay tuned :)

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.